LAST UPDATED – JUNE 13, 2019
TopNursing.org is a one-stop solution for all your doubts and confusions about nursing education and employment. Here, we have accumulated almost every information related to the profession. Before going through our website, we would suggest you read our privacy policy top to bottom to eliminate any kind of confusion regarding the information and data provided by us. We request you to not access TopNursing.org if you don’t agree with our policies and practices. If you are using it, this indicates that you are aware of this privacy policy.
This policy may get amended at regular time intervals, and if you are accessing the site even after it is updated it implies your approval. So, kindly go through the policy periodically.
If you have any suggestions or queries about the site, we welcome you for that. You can contact us via mail, we will try to respond as soon as possible.
Privacy Policy Scope
Declaration of our privacy policy is about the information that we get from the Internet or other digital formats-
- From third parties for whom your use of website is a matter of interest
- When you have discussion over our advertisements on third party websites and services
- This website
- Via mails, messages and other electronic texts between the site and user
What Information We Collect About You and How?
We need the following information about the users of the website –
- Personal information such as, name, email id, postal address, and phone number
- Information about URLs and exit pages, preferences submitted by you and based on the number of clicks and data
- Device you use to access TopNursing.org, your Internet connection and details of its usage
We collect this information from –
- Our clients and business partners
- Directly
- Via navigation through the website
Information Provided by You Directly
Following things are collected through the site –
- Information filled you in the form when you request for more contact or take part in any of our online contests on TopNursing.org. You may also require to give information when you come across a problem with the website.
- Information that you provide while posting comments on the public areas of the site.
- From the queries you search on the website
- Your answers to the surveys for research purposes
- Records or copies of your e-mail id or any other correspondence of those who contact us
If you post comments in the public areas of website or transfer to other users of the website or third parties, it will completely at your risk. We have no control over the activities of other users we do not guarantee about your contributions being viewed by the unauthenticated users.
Information Gathered by Us Automatically
We are using certain automatic data collection technologies about your actions and browsing patterns when you access the website. Information that we collect comprises –
- Detailed information about your visit to the website such as the resources that you use frequently, aggregated information, time you spent on the site, and communication data.
- Information about your connection, device and browser
Sometimes, we use browser cookies, to avoid these cookies you can activate pertinent settings on your browser. Though, you will not be able to use certain parts of the site on selecting these settings.
Information Gathered From Third Parties
We get to know your name and email address from our clients. You provide this information to these clients in return of a request you make to gain more information (about a school and educational program). Clients share this information with us for billing and reporting purposes. We keep this information as long as we sort out the payment and credit disputes with our clients and publishers. More information, other than the personal is received by us from Facebook and Google analytics.
The Way We Use Your Information
Personal Information
- Your personal information that we collect from you is used by us for the following reasons –
- To provide you with marketing communications that are of your interest, according to us
- To repond your queries and requests
- For some business reasons such as, making sure about the ability of our campaigns for promotion, finding out the usage trends, improving the quality of content and display on our website, evolve new and trending products, analysis and prevention from frauds, and evaluation of data.
- We believe it suitable or essential –
- To allow us to follow available remedies or regulate the damages that might be continuing for an extended period.
- To accomplish out terms and conditions
- For the safety, privacy and protection of your property and rights
- Under a law that is applicable
- to reply for the requests made by public authorities and government
- to protect out operations and also of our affiliates
- To stick to the legal procedure
- To provide information related to the scholarships, any variation in the policies, terms and conditions, and several other administrative information about the site.
- For any other purpose after your approval
Other Information
We gather other information about you for these reasons –
- For the analysis of size and usage patterns of the users
- For the purpose of security
- For the guarantee of proper functioning of the site
- For evaluating the problems related to server and estimating the usage levels of website
- For administering, evaluating, operating and improving the website
- To identify you when you visit the site again
- To provide the information other than personal that we gain from third parties such as advertising segments, to let us know about the ads of your interest.
- For customizing your experience and display the contact in a brilliant way and allowing navigation at the time you use TopNursing.org
- We believe it suitable or essential –
- To allow us to follow available remedies or regulate the damages that might be continuing for an extended period.
- To accomplish out terms and conditions
- For the safety, privacy, and protection of your property and rights
- Under a law that is applicable
- To reply to the requests made by public authorities and government
- To protect our operations and also of our affiliates
- To stick to the legal procedure
- To provide information related to the scholarships, any variation in the policies, terms and conditions, and several other administrative information about the site
- For any other purpose after your approval
The information gathered by us will not be used for underwriting, pricing, health care eligibility, insurance eligibility, employment eligibility, and credit eligibility.
Disclosure of Your Information
Personal Information
Your personal information provided by you or extracted by us may get revealed –
- We believe it suitable or essential –
- To allow us to follow available remedies or regulate the damages that might be continuing for an extended period.
- To accomplish out terms and conditions
- For the safety, privacy and protection of your property and rights
- Under a law that is applicable
- To reply for the requests made by public authorities and government
- To protect our operations and also of our affiliates
- To stick to the legal procedure
- To provide information related to the scholarships, any variation in the policies, terms and conditions, and several other administrative information about the site
- For any other purpose after your approval
- To contractors, third parties that are partners of the business, and service providers
- Directly by you, on public destinations where you can provide information and materials. Any kind of information revealed by you via these services will become public and are also available to the other users of website. We suggest you to be very attentive while revealing about your personal and additional information on the site.
- To a buyer or other customer if there is a case of reorganization, dissolution, merger, or divestiture, no matter, as a divison of liquidation, insolvency or something similar to them, in which personal data or information of our users is considered among the resources that are transferred.
- To our corporate officials or subsidiaries
Other Information
We provide the non-personal information about our users –
- To contractors, third parties that are partners of the business, and service providers
- We believe it suitable or essential –
- To allow us to follow available remedies or regulate the damages that might be continuing for an extended period.
- To accomplish out terms and conditions
- For the safety, privacy and protection of your property and rights
- Under a law that is applicable
- to reply for the requests made by public authorities and government
- to protect out operations and also of our affiliates
- To stick to the legal procedure
- To our corporate officials or subsidiaries
- By some other means that we may explain when you provide the information
- With your approval
There may be cases when other information can be combined along with the personal information by us (for instance, integration of name with the date of birth). If we combine both the information, then this combination will be considered as personal by us.
Information Retention
All your information will be controlled for the time period required to accomplish the tasks, as described in the policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by the law.
Third Party Usage of Cookies and Other Technologies
Facebook Pixel
Our company uses the Facebook Pixel Technology, which is infamously known to identify the selective group of relevant audiences when it comes to displaying the Facebook Pop-Up Ads. The targeted audience is selected by their chosen field of interests, and a feedback is submitted proclaiming if they find our ads satisfactory or not. The activity changes (if any) are noted of the surfers before and after they visited our website.
The Technology allows us to place an innocuous cookie in your device, which in turn allows us to know your interests. This helps us in showing you the ads that you're interested in.
The technology is controlled only by Facebook, and we do not claim to have any part in the working of it. In case of any questions, or complains, you are asked to contact Facebook directly.
Social Plug-ins
The plug-ins of Pinterest, Twitter, Google Plus, Facebook, et cetera are provided by the respective sites itself. The plug-ins can be easily recognized by their logos.
When you visit any of these plug-ins while you have logged on to any social networking website, these plug-ins retract valid information. We would like to clear that we do not hold any responsibility for whatever information these plug-ins gather. In case of any query or complain, please contact the administrator of the plug-in directly.
Google Analytics
Our web analysis device is run by Google.Inc directly and is called Google Analytics. The device gathers all the information stored in the cookies or text files that are stored in your device. It is used to analyze what you did online.
Now we'd like to clear that the information so gathered might be done by Google on our behalf, in order to assess the use of the website by the user. Apart from other services, Google might also use it to create relevant profiles.
Any of the tracking technologies, either by Google or not, is not our responsibility. The site may directly use the information for whatever they like and in case of any query, you are requested to contact them directly.
Other Applications or Content
There are certain third parties that contribute into our content on the website. Sometimes these third parties may also access the cookies stored in your device to note your surfing interests. They may also collect your personal information, along with what you've done online, and the sites you've visited. They, then, use the information saved on cookies to judge your interests and display ads accordingly.
We would again like to maintain that whatever the third parties (who provide applications or content) do with the cookies is none of our responsibilities. You may feel free to contact the providers directly.
Third Parties
Our website does not associate with whatever the privacy policies are of any third parties that might be linked to our website for whatever reason. It is not necessary that all the links that appear on our website are associated with our name, nor do we help them by any means.
We will not be held responsible for the use, disclosure or even the collection of any information that you have revealed on any social networking platform. If you have visited nay social networking website through our website and filled in any delicate information, we cannot be held answerable to it in any way whatsoever.
It is strongly advised that you always visit the privacy policies page of every networking website so you get a vague idea about what their policies are.
How We Disclose Your Information
We do not just share your personal information. We have provided you with choices that facilitate your decision and maintain control over the information.
- The first offer is that you can control your settings of the browser and twist them so they do not save nay cookies in your device. Though, you should keep in mind that by doing this, you may cause the website to not function fully. You also delete the opt-out cookies when you disable the cookies on your browser. You may have to re-set again.
- If the incessant popping of ads on the website, promoting third parties or products bothers you, you can always drop an email to (email id) and let us know. We can stop it immediately. In case you're receiving any irrelevant ads from us on your email through our newsletters, kindly let us know so we put a stop on it, too.
- In case you do not want Facebook Pixel to use any of the information that it has gathered from your access to the different websites, you are requested to visit the official Facebook website and alter the settings from there. We have no control over the policies of that website.
Access And Correction Of Your Information
In case you think that any information provided to us by you is incorrect or tampered, please contact us immediately via email at (email id.) While we make promises to strongly consider, we might be unable to make any changes in the information if the alteration breaches any law or legal rights in any way.
Sensitive Information
We not only strongly recommend not to, but also request you that you do not drop any information, via opinions or facts, that might hurt the religious, legal, political or otherwise sentiments of other visitors or users.
Security
We do everything in our power to keep our website authentic, safe and secure for your use, by using administrative, technical and organizational measures. Having said that, we do not guarantee the complete security of your data.
Children Below The Age Of 13
It should be noted by the users, that our website is not meant for the use of any child who is below the age of 13. If we do happen to stumble upon any personal information or opinion or fact as posted by any child below the specified age, we shall remove it immediately. The children are also not allowed to post any information, personal or otherwise, on the website without the consent of parents or guardians.
Changes To Our Privacy Policies
We'd like to make it clear that we have all the right to change and alter any privacy policy at any time. Please stay up to date in terms of our policies.
Contact Information
Please contact us here.
